Category: Amateur Radio (Ham Radio)

Many of you would have heard of moon bounce, popularly known as EME or Earth-Moon-Earth contacts in which radio signals are bounced off the moon to establish two

FM radio is quite popular these days and there are many FM channels available in most of the cities. If you live away from a city or wish

Folded back the Western side of my zig-zag antenna by 60cm. Due to folding constraints, I had to make three layers for the folding for this 60cm! Mounted

Folded back 76 cm from the Western side of my 80m antenna under construction, which is a zig-zag off center fed linear loaded inverted V dipole with three

Connected my cross needle SWR meter to the SO239 connector of my FT-710 radio with a patch cable. In fact there are two patch cables, one with PL259

I had posted a comparison of the performance of my setup as assessed by pick up at CW skimmers on Reverse Beacon Network. Repeated the same test in

Half square antenna consists of two vertical quarter wave elements and a horizontal half wave element which acts as the phasing line between the two vertical elements. The

Had a comparison of pickups on CW at Reverse Beacon Network (RBN) skimmers today morning around 7 am local time between low power and full power of my

You may be aware that a genetic antenna is one produced by computer modelling and testing of multiple exotic versions and finally choosing the best option. Genetic antennas

That was S79VU from Seychelles, coming here 5,9+20 dB, thanks to his hexbeam towards VU and his solid state homebrew 600 Watts linear amplifier. Previous day I had